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I have been researching my ancestry for the past 17 years now ( since 2000 ) .. I did a test and registered with Family Tree DNA .. so excited ..

Haplogroup – T2 is what I have been classified as … according to FAMILY TREE DNA .. THEY STATE .. The mitochondrial haplogroup T is best characterized as a European lineage. With an origin in the Near East greater than 45,000 years ago, the major sub-lineages of haplogroup T entered Europe around the time of the Neolithic 10,000 years ago.

Once in Europe, these sub-lineages underwent a dramatic expansion associated with the arrival of agriculture in Europe. Haplogroup T2 is one of the older sub-lineages and may have been present in Europe as early as the Late Upper Palaeolithic.The mitochondrial haplogroup T is best characterized as a European lineage.

With an origin in the Near East greater than 45,000 years ago, the major sub-lineages of haplogroup T entered Europe around the time of the Neolithic 10,000 years ago.

Once in Europe, these sub-lineages underwent a dramatic expansion associated with the arrival of agriculture in Europe. Haplogroup T2 is one of the older sub-lineages and may have been present in Europe as early as the Late Upper Palaeolithic.

This is what I’ve found

“Neolithic diffusion of agriculture It is certain that haplogroup T played an important role in the diffusion of agriculture across Europe. T samples belonging to T1a1’3, T2a1b1, T2b (including T2b3a and T2b23a), T2c (incl. T2c1d1), T2e and T2f have been found in remains from the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in Central Europe, and the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in Ukraine.

One T2 sample was also identified at a Cardium Pottery culture site in north-eastern Spain. Indo-European invasions during the Bronze Age Wilde et al. (2014) tested mtDNA samples from the Yamna culture, the presumed homeland (or Urheimat) of Proto-Indo-European speakers, and found T2a1b in the Middle Volga region and Bulgaria, and T1a both in central Ukraine and the Middle Volga. The frequency of T1a and T2 in Yamna samples were each 14.5%, a percentage higher than in any country today and only found in similarly high frequencies among the Udmurts of the Volga-Ural region.

Haplogroups T1 and T2 were also part of the Bronze Age samples retrieved from the Corded Ware culture (T1a, T1a1’3, T2, T2b2b, T2b4f, T2c) and the Unetice culture (T2b, T2c), both in Central Europe. The Corded Ware culture is associated with the expansion of Y-haplogroup R1a from the northern Russian steppe, while Unetice marks the arrival of R1b lineages around modern Germany. Nonetheless, the maternal lineages recovered in Germany and best generic levitra overnight Switzerland display a strong continuity with Neolithic samples from the same region, and could have been absorbed by the Indo-European male invaders. The only subclades found in Bronze Age Indo-European cultures that have not (yet?) been found in Neolithic Europe are T2b2b and T2b4f.”